Mikhail Zharov

Biography

Mikhail Ivanovich Zharov is a Soviet theater and film actor. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1944) and People's Artist of the USSR (October 26, 1949). In 1920, he graduated from the studio at the theater of the Artistic and Educational Union of Workers' Organization. He acted in theaters No. 1 of the Revolutionary Military Union of the Republic, the Safonov Theater, the Baku Workers' Theater, the Realistic Theater, and the Moscow Chamber Theater. From 1938, he was an actor and director at the Maly Theater. He made his film debut in 1915 with a tiny, practically unnoticeable role as an oprichnik in the film "Tsar Ivan Vasilyevich the Terrible." He played his first major role, that of Red Army soldier Yegor, in 1925 in the film "The Road to Happiness." In those years, Zharov was considered an unrivaled master of the episodic genre (Don Diego and Pelageya, The Man from the Restaurant, The White Eagle, The Living Corpse, Outskirts, and Puppets). He found expressive, distinctive details and rich, vibrant colors for his characters, imbuing them all—both villains and heroes—with a common quality: they are all great lovers of life, charming, confident, and in control of life. His heroes know…

Movies & TV Shows

1. Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944) — Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov
2. Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot (1958) — Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov
3. Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924) — Actor in Play
4. Chess Fever (1925) — House Painter
5. Outskirts (1933) — Krayevitch, a student
6. Road to Life (1931) — Фомка «Жиган»
7. Miss Mend (1926) — Waiter at the inn
8. Peter the First, Part I (1937) — Alexander Danilovich Menshikov
9. Michurin (1949) — Khrenov
10. The Vyborg Side (1939) — Platon Vassilievich Dymba
11. The Man from the Restaurant (1927) — Waiter
12. The Return of Maxim (1937) — Platon Dymba
13. A Noisy Household (1946) — Semibab
14. A Girl with Guitar (1958) — Sviristinsky
15. The Anna Cross (1954) — Artynov
16. The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom (1924) — sluzhashchiy i nosil'shchik
17. The Living Corpse (1929) — Hired witness (uncredited)
18. Peter the First, Part II (1938) — Alexander Danilovich Menshikov
19. Bohdan Khmelnytskyi (1941) — cantor Havrylo
20. The White Eagle (1928) — Official
21. Twins (1945) — Vadim Spiridonovich Yeropkin
22. The Yellow Ticket (1928) — Visitor in the brothel
23. Aniskin Again (1977) — Aniskin
24. Elder Sister (1967) — Ukhov
25. Actress (1943) — Reciter in hospital
26. The Bear (1938) — Grigori Stepanovich Smirnov
27. Thunderstorm (1934) — Koudryash
28. Marionettes (1934) — Border checkpoint commander
29. Air Taxi (1943) — Baranov
30. The Village Detective (1969) — Fyodor Ivanovich Aniskin
31. Don Diego and Pelagia (1928) — Mikhail Zharov
32. The District Secretary (1942) — Gavril Fedorovich Rusov
33. Stepan Razin (1939) — Lazunka, boyarin's son
34. 26 Commissioners (1933) — menshevik
35. Engineer Kochin's Error (1939) — Lartsev
36. Aniskin and Fantomas (1973) — Фёдор Анискин
37. Love and Hate (1935)
38. Cain the XVIII-th (1963) — Minister of War
39. Man in a Shell (1939) — Михаил Александрович Коваленко (учитель истории и географии)
40. In the Name of the Motherland (1943) — Globa

Directed

1. A Noisy Household (1946) — Director
2. Aniskin Again (1977) — Director
3. Aniskin and Fantomas (1973) — Director
4. Aniskin and Fantomas (1974) — Director